France recalls their ambassadors

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A mate from the UK who has spent quite a bit of time as the MD of a French Technology company says Australia was lucky to get out of the Sub deal while it could. He said working and dealing with the French is a 24x7 effort managing degraded expectations and looking for future loopholes to close.

He thinks France must have invented the "Rubber Time" that is famous in Asian and Pacific Island regions, and that they have turned C'est La Vie into a way of life when it comes to over-promising and under-delivering!

Today I watched an excerpt from a recent senate estimates committee in which a senior public servant was asked about the planning process for the submarines and cost overruns. 

His answer was that the process was progressing as anticipated, that the costs had not blown out at all and were within the limits set when the contract was signed.